Southern Carpathians
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group of mountain ranges located in southern Romania
Key facts
- Peak
- Moldoveanu
- Elevation
- 2,544 m (8,346 ft)
- Country
- Romania
- Parent range
- Carpathians
- Orogeny
- Alpine orogeny
- Rock age
- Mostly Triassic
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain range
- Part of
- Carpathians
- Country
- Romania
- Elevation
- 2544
- Highest point
- Moldoveanu Peak
- Image
- Parang mountain image 1.jpg
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- Commons category
- Southern Carpathians
- topic's main category
- Category:Southern Carpathians
- mountain range
- Carpathians
- time period
- Triassic
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Encyclopedic overview
The Southern Carpathians (also known as the Transylvanian Alps; Romanian: Carpații Meridionali [karˈpatsij ˌmeridi.oˈnalʲ]; Hungarian: Déli-Kárpátok) are a group of mountain ranges located in southern Romania. They cover the part of the Carpathian Mountains located between the Prahova River in the east and the Timiș and Cerna Rivers in the west. To the south they are bounded by the Balkan Mountains in eastern Serbia.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Southern Carpathians” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.